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by lsb 18y ago
Apropos of this, has anyone had success by swapping a platter-based disk drive for a SSD?
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by lsb 18y ago
I was living up in Stoke Newington when I was in London (N16 7AJ repreSENT!), and that's under 10 minutes to the Lea River and Regent's Canal, both of which are fantastic cycling routes. The Grand Union is also delightful, especially with
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by lsb 18y ago
Okay, so why isn't "Center" centered? With the CSS, Top Center Bottom are all centered, but with the tables, they're not. Edit: am I wrong? Why am I being downvoted? I'm on Mac OS X 10.5 Safari 3.2.1
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by lsb 18y ago
What type of a platform? Do you have any code sketches to demonstrate the ease of doing otherwise tedious tasks, like in the Pig and Sawzall papers?
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by lsb 18y ago
And the models' hourly rate.
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by lsb 18y ago
We had a pretty big change with JFK, who made hats seem stodgy. What's next to fall? Jackets? Ties?
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by lsb 18y ago
A couple ways -- USB-powered electric gloves, combined with enough not-typing and cardio to make sure the blood's still flowing. (Mozart and his wife, for example, used to dance in their cold apartment to keep warm.)
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by lsb 18y ago
Boloco's okay, there's one on Boston & Winthrop in Medford, and some other sprinkled around town. Have you tried the Blue Shirt right in Davis Sq? As far as cheap and easy food, pizza and bagels here seem like the burritos of SF.
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by lsb 18y ago
That sounds pretty much like why PHP won; the effort of making a programming language work (ie the standard library) overshadows the effort of implementing better abstractions.
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by lsb 18y ago
That looks really cool; how's that been working out? Is that in production? If Ruby had Gambit Scheme's serializable continuations, that would be pretty interesting times.
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by lsb 18y ago
Ruby + Sinatra for now. It's great for tiny services that work together. A full web service to implement '/add/1/2' is just require 'sinatra'; get('/add/:a/:b') { params[:a].to_i + params[:b].to_i }
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by lsb 18y ago
If it's like a startup, does that mean that there's a >90% chance of failure? Or do you just mean, 5 ways to govern well ?
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by lsb 18y ago
I'm a counterexample.
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by lsb 18y ago
Imagine, Facebook realizes that people just friend people willy-nilly, so they team up with Burger King to find out who people value less than a tenth of a hamburger (McDonald's quarter-pounders, if memory serves, are $1.25 or so). Pretty
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by lsb 18y ago
You probably won't have much space if you're going to be a little widget on someone's page. 1024x768 is a safe bet, but most laptops have higher-resolution; low-end macbooks have 1280x800 default.
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Amazon's Simple Pay Subscription launches(payments-sandbox.amazon.com)
42 points by lsb 18y ago|27 comments
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by lsb 18y ago
Your bio seems like a perfect reason to reconsider thinking things like "What does this business guy think he is, some kind of rocket scientist?".
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by lsb 18y ago
It's from Alan Kay, in 1971. Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. "The origin of the quote came from an early meeting in 1971 of PARC, Palo Alto Research Center, fo
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by lsb 18y ago
If you're on a road bike going 12 miles an hour, 5 miles is a fantastic 25-minute cardio workout.
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by lsb 18y ago
I learned about it in 2005, when I read it on http://pragdave.pragprog.com/pragdave/2005/11/symbolto_proc.... and it's such a good idea that they've folded it into 1.9 http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/to_proc-currying-ruby19
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by lsb 18y ago
Using Symbol#to_proc, the old Ruby myList.collect { |f| f.description }.select { |d| d != "" }.join("\n") becomes myList.map(&:description).reject(&:empty?).join("\n") which is even more direct: take my list, map each
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by lsb 18y ago
Alan Kay, at his Turing award lecture: A couple of years ago we started this project called Squeak, which is simply not an attempt to give the world a free Smalltalk, but an attempt to give the world a bootstrapping mechanism for
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by lsb 18y ago
Colin Powell: Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, tha
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by lsb 18y ago
Their secret weapon is not their assembler language, MapReduce, but their HLLs atop that, like Sawzall, http://labs.google.com/papers/sawzall.html
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by lsb 18y ago
It's a fundamental problem of language design. In Lisp, extending the built-in functions is trivial, so lots of people built Lisp up into the language to solve their problem in, and Ruby makes it easy to do the same. Rails is extends the l
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by lsb 18y ago
I really love the DrScheme IDE. You can see the values that your functions are passing each other, and I've prototyped some code using Scheme and it was a really seamless experience.
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by lsb 18y ago
Why can't Central Command for RubyGems just upload any gem it gets as a Debian and RedHat package?
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by lsb 18y ago
The next big thing is always a superhuman effort to transform the world. You can do that, by making the entirety of human knowledge available (Wikipedia, Google), with a website, but the website itself won't be enough, yes.
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by lsb 18y ago
Around Harvard Square, it's pretty expensive, but I found a 4br apartment for $2460/month 5 minutes' bike (downhill) from Davis, so it's pretty reasonable if you're willing to live with people. If you need something closer to Boston proper
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by lsb 18y ago
In this house we Obey the Laws of Physics.

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